Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1933 — Page 6

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Wheatley Center Big Five Os Fort Wayne Plays Here Tonight

DECATUR A. C.'S BATTLE STRONG COLORED FIVE Former Central Tiger Stars Are Mainstays Os Visiting Team 'Hie Decatur A. C.’s wi I play one of their l‘catur> I pai '"s of the season tonight; ill the Decatur high school gymnasium when they meet th. Wheatley Center Big ]■" ■' of Fort Wayne. The 1 v> i'ing team is composed er I rely of colored players, (>!"' have been one of the l> *' attractions in semi-pro 1” 1 etball in this section of lb late for several years. Most of the Wheatley Center ph vers have starred in past years on Murray Mendenhall's Port W ■’■ne Central Tigers. Included in lie lineup are such former central stars as Buggs, Jenkins. I I t«r, Nash and Blank, all of, whom are well remembered by Jo ■rtiir -fans from some of Ceilt championship teams in bygone years. "he A. C.'s are expected to have full strength tonight for the ■ f time in the last several g men. Among the players exp Hjed to see action for Decatur a Horton, Gass, DeE'olt. Schnepp. Steele and Zerkel. Decatur has made a good record ' in independent circles this season defeating some of the strongest onin'ets in this section of the SAVE io? DISCOUNT ON YOUR ELECTRIC LIGHT BILLS 3Y PAYING ON OR BEFORE Jan. 20 POWER BILLS ARE ALSO DUE -AND— Rural Lines DUE THIS MONTH Mud Pike, Union and Root Townships in Adams county. Madison and Monroe townships in Allen county, and payable at CITY HALL

state. > Wednesday night the A. C.'s play at St. Mary's, Ohio. These | two games will serve to get the local players in shape for the independent tourney at Berne the! last three days of this week. Hi • this tourney Decatur drew the first round bye and will not play until Saturday morning, meeting the winner of the first game of the tourney between the Wells ' County Farm Bureau and Spencer j ville, Ohio, teams. OHIO STATE IS | BIG TEN LEADER Chicago. Jan. 17. —■ (U.R) — Ohio State, with three straight victorlies, tops the Big Ten basketball race, and remains the only team in tlie conference with a clean slate in championship play. The Buckeyes took the lead by defeating Illinois. 33 to 22. at Columbus, and were aided when Northwestern handed Wisconsin i s first trimming. 40 to 22. at Evanston. The purple five climbed | into a second place tie with the Badgers, each witll three victories and one defeat. Purdue displayed signs of returning to championship form by administering a sound drubbing to i Minnesota at Lafayette.. 40 to 16 j The Boilermakers won with Stewart and Kellar, third year veterans, on the bench. Chicago displayed unexpected opposition against lowa at the midway, but the Hawkeyes made use of a big first halt' lead to win, 36 to 32. Minnesota plays a non-conference game against Notre Dame at South Bend tonight. On Saturday Ulin ois engages Northwestern in a return game at Evanston, and Mich-1 igan invades Chicago. The standing: W. L. Pct. I Ohio State 3 0 1.0001 Northwestern 3 1 .750 Wisconsin 3 1 .750 Michigan 2 1 .667 Purdue . . 2 2 .500 Illinois 2 2 .500 lowa 2 2 ,500 Indiana 1 2 .333 | Minnesota .. 0 3 .0001 Chicago 0 4 .000 I One of the feature games of the i Decatur A. C. s schedule will be! played here tonight at Hie D. H S. I gym. with the Wheatley Center Big, Five affording the opposition for the locals. —oOo— The visiting lineup is composed , of all colored players, most of them , former stars at Central of Fort Wayne. Such players as Jenkins, Nash, Buggs. Lester and Blank are well remembered here. The Commodores open a strenuous week of competition tonight, meeting St. Rose at Lima, Ohio, tonight. St. Rose handed the Commodores a decisive defeat on the local floor last week and the Commodores are out for revenge tonight. Two other games are on the Commodore schedule this week. A return game will be played at New Haven Wednesday night and Friday night, Delphos, Ohio, will appear here. The Commodores scored victor les over both these teams earlier In the season, defeating New Haven, 18-11, and Delphos, 19-17. New Haven is one of the best of the Allen county teams while Delphos always puts out a tough ball cluh. Herb Curtis is working his Yellow Jackets overtime this week in an effort to get them back in the winning column after suffering five consecutive defeats. The Yellow Jackets have their work cut out for them in an effort to break that losing streak this . week, playing two games on the 1 road Friday and Saturday nights. Friday the locals play at Rochest-1 er and Saturday meet the Central! • Tigers at Fort Wayne. The Auburn Red ’ Devils pulled into a tie for first, place in the! * Northeastern Indiana conference I conference last week by defeating! the Decatur Yellow Jackets while Hartford City was idle. Neither of these teams has been defeated, each winning five games. The surprise of the week's games was Garrett's victory over the Bluffton Tig-

II inter II liirluinds — By BURNLEY Winter. £ SPOR.TS- -AJOW O /Ai THE LIMELIGHT/ '■ ■'&*> -'Mm / / ; ISlmj -SCHROEDER ( jF 15 OAJEOF v the five u-S- v SPEED SKATERS ' COMPETE fc>ViMr I IW TIE WORLD 4 championships - JAFFE- OAJE OF AJORU/Ay LAST YEARS OLYMPIC AJEXTMOAJTH ! ijgjA STARS WHO IS NOW L ~ RACING AS A PROFESSIONAL zF\ SPEED SKATER/ The Bobsledders vy x Are competiajg in fla \ j their championship RACES AT LAKE & PLACID DURING JANUARY FEBRUARY— G&fc ” ■ B illy io Olympic Bobsled t .i? champions will be among the contenders e l9 jy Xing Features Syndicate. Inc. Otax Britain njthn icsemni at Lake Placid.

HERE we are in mid-winter again, mates, and so far this year I don’t think I’ve mentioned a thing about ice-skat-ing or snow-shoeing, skiing or bobsledding or—well, let’s see—what are a few other wintry-sounding sports? Anyway, the ice-skaters and the bobsledders are in again, breaking iuto the sport headlines now and then. Up at l ake Placid. N. Y., the daredevil bobsledders are already competing in their exceedingly dangerous speed races, hurtling down the steep and icy slopes of the famous Mt. Von Hoevenberg bob run at terrific speeds. T.ast year the winter Olympics were held at Lake Placid and the bobsledders came in for a lot of attention The Olympic bobsled ers. It was Garrett’s first confer-| ence win of the season. Kendallville also registered its first vic-1 tory. defeating central, later los-l ing to South Side by one point. The conference standing, with! games won, games lost and number : of games yet to play, is as follows: Team W L GTP Hartford City 5 0 4 Auburn 5 0 4 South Side 4 1 4 Central 2 3 4 Columbia City .23 1 Decatur 1 3 5 Kendallville 13 5 Garrett 1 3 5 Bluffton 14 4 North Side 0 2 7 —oOo— Five games are scheduled on this week’s conference card, three Friday night and two Saturday. The schedule follows: Friday — South Side at Columbia City; Hartford City at Kendallville and Central at Bluffton. Saturday — Decatur at Central and Garrett at Hartford City. Another undefeated team dropped from the wayside in the Big Ten basketball race Monday night. The Wisconsin Badgers were handed a decisive defeat by Northwestern. 40 to 22. Ohio State continued unbeaten, downing Illinois, 33 to 22. The Purdue Boilermakers came back to life by walloping Minnesota, 40 to 10. In the other conference game. lowa nosed out I Chicago, 36 to 32. —oOo — | The Butler Bulldogs continued , on their merry way in the Missouri Valley conference, easily defeating I Oklahoma A. & M. last night, 31 to 18. Butler has not been defeated in conference competition. —o There is a cold wave coming and you can buy an overcoat for half the regular price at Teeple & Peterson’s.

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champions, both the four-man and the two-man teams, will be among the entrants in the North American and national championships which will be held during the next few weeks at Lake Placid. The American four-man bobsled team which holds the Olympic and world titles is composed of Billy Fiske, driver, Jay O’Brien, brakeman, Eddie Eagan (remember him? —the former Olympic lightheavyweight. boxing champion) and Clifford Gray. Another famous fourman team that will be racing in the championships is the Saranac Red Devil team driven by Henry Hornberger, which holds the record for the Mt. Van Hoevenberg course—--1:52 minutes for the mile-and-a-half run. The speed skaters are also coming in for their share of notice. Five of America's leading speed skaters ar- nr.w in Trondheim Nor- I

RUTH REJECTS HIS CONTRACT New York, Jan. 17.—(U.R) —Babe j Ruth, baseball's highest salaried : player, fired the first gun in the big 1 1933 holdout war by rejecting a | one-year contract from the New I York Yankees because it containled a reduction —of probably $15,11UO. The war was expected to flare out on all fronts today os players throughout the nation received registered letters containing depression contracts. Ruth apparently was not upset. “When I saw the figures in that contract, I knew right away someone wjs kidding me,’’ he said, grinning broadly as he sorted out some , brand new phonograph records. ‘ It’s a little too early for Valenj tine’s day, so I didn't appreciate 'the joke. What did 1 do? I mail ed the contract right back where it came from. One look at those: figures—” “What figures, Babe?’’ "I 11 let the club tell you about: that. All I can say is that their 1 offer wasn't enough not by a long) , shot. And I'll not sign at those figures." Colonel Jacob Ruppert, jovial owner of the Yankees, would add Tittle to Babes announcement when 1 he was cornered at his brewery. | He declined to reveal the figures.; but admitted the contract “con- I t iined a reduction." I o Whippets Play Wednesday j The Kirkland Whippets will meet the Fort Wayne All Stars at the . ■ Kirkkiuid gymnasium Wednesday. .(The admission will be 15 cents and •-high school and grade pupils will be . free.

way, where they will compete against the Norwegian skating stars and in the world’s championships at Oslo. The American aces are Eddie Schroeder of Chicago, who beat two Chicago rivals, O’Neill Farrell and Eddie Murphy, in a special race shortly before he left; Valentine Bialis, well known Utica speed ster; Bert Taylor, another Chicago star; Carl Springer of Brooklyn, and Eddie Wedge of Detroit. Oyer in Norway they will rnce against such famous skaters as Ballangrud. Thunbcrg and Evensen in special meets scheduled for Feb. 17 and 18. Meanwhile. Irving Jaffee, who won two skating titles in last year’s Olympics, has turned pro. and is travelling around the country racing against the leading pro fcssional speed skaters. • roDvrlpht 1®33 King Feature* U-

URGE JAPAN TO STOP CONQUEST j CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE i policy on the question. A growing demand was evident : among the powers at Geneva for a I clear declaration by the League of Nations regarding the Far Eastern situation. Borno Camp Mukden, Manchuria, Jan. 17. — (U.R)—Japanese military planes today bombed a concentration of Chinese soldiers at Kailuhsien. near the northern border of Jehol province, killing an unestimated number and heavily damaging the town, it was reported here. Japanese military headquarters here claimed that the bombardment was ordered after it had been learned Chinese troops stationed at Kailuhsien were planning to attack the town of Tungliao, which is across l|ie border in Manchuria. Pilots of the military plane which participated in the bombing attac*. today estimated that 50,000 Chinese troops have been massed in the vicinity of Kailuhsien. Hurried preparations were beI gun to dispatch Japanese cavalry land infantry units to the vicinity jof Tungliao to check any advance of Chinese forces across the Jehol frontier. — o Hitchhikes 1,000 Miles Gary. Ind., Jan. 17—(U.R)— C. W. j Bailey, former Gary city employe . hitchhiked 1,000 miles to sign an j affidavit charging Mayor Roswell I O. Johnson with misuse of public I funds. As a result, the mayor, who was freed on a similar charge in Valparaiso last week, today faced service of a new warrant issued ’ by Prosecutor Robert G. Estill. Bailey claimed he had helped I I build a cottage and rock garden *1 for the mayor while on the city payroll.

STATE POLICE GET RESULTS New Policy of Stricter Law Enforcement Is Producing Benefits Indianapolis, 'lnd., Jan. 17— (Special) —Summary of activities of the 'lndiana state police for the last, 'quarter of 1932. just submitted by Chief Grover C. Garrott to Secretary of State Frank Mayr, Jr., shows that the department's new policy of stricter enforcement of the motor vehicle laws is producing positive and definite benefits. During the three months, the department issued 1554 warnings and : made 302 arrests in the gradual (tightening up of its enforcement I program. Chief Garrott sa'd. 1 Truck law arrests for the quarjter numbered 213. This work, done lin part in co-oper ition with state highway commission and local officers. reflects to some extent the 'recent Kentucky-Indiana truck i feud. During the quarter the number of trucks checked over for violations of the truck law which went into operation on July 1 last was 1.456. School bus cases handled by the department totaled 574. Cases of improper parking, acted on by the state police under the regulations affecting broken down or stalled

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Itrucks. numbered 138. During the three months of October November and December. ! state police officers patroled the roads of the state for a total of nv!ft c . DuHb? th® fiscal year lending September 30, 1932. the department totaled 1.919.124 miles covered. This record, Mr. Garrott pointed out, is considerably better 'than that of state police and state 'highway patrols over the country generally. SIX BANDITS STAGE HOLDUP CONTINUED FROM posit. He and the other customer. William Heinke, North Judson, were herded together with the j employes. While the holdup was in progress the fire siren was sounded, calling vigilantes to the scene. The bandits ordered Vanek to accompany them, holding him as a shield ami making him stand on , the running board. Several of the vigilantes by that . time, including Lewis Kraii, editor . of the North Judson paper, were pi epared to fire. They were prevented, however, ■ by Vanek's presence. ; Sheriff Alfred Norris of Starke i county, state police and officers . from Valparaiso and Michigan / City started in pursuit. ! They traced the bandit car to a • point two miles where it turned < north. A report said later that it I had been seen at Wanatah, south I

of I-aporte. Tlie automobile carrini n J license plates 368-961. Two other banks have u, robbed in Indiana since .ja»] and the holdup of another"V thwarted. Those robbed inetad the Western State Bank at So 1 Bend and the Centerville Bullet proof glass prevented holdup at the Kempton bank. Jan. 7. a ’ — THREE PERSONS PERISH TODAY IN TRAGIC FIRE CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONS ened by the shouts. ed the house just in time to ,> strain Julia from rushing into the smoke and flames They were too late, however, a keep Mrs. towe from gnin e | ( in an attempt to save her n, sons and grandson who » P , asleep in an upstairs room. Just as she plunged into tfe house. Chester jumped from at upsairs window. When firemen extinguished th flames they found Mrs. Lowft body at the top of the stain. The bodies of Henry and Howard were still in their beds. The alarm was turned is by Lucille Day. 16, who telephony when she heard the screams Sia is a pupil at Evansville Central high school. Dance Every Wednesday night K. of <?. Hall. Decatur. I Tues, i Wed